John R. Busby

Visiting Scientist - Bioinformatics

B.Sc. (Hons) 1971, M.Sc. 1973, Monash University
Ph.D. 1976, University of Alberta

Email: John.Busbycsiro.au

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
CSIRO Plant Industry
GPO Box 1600
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA

Planning and facilitating the development of multi-agency information networks at national and global scales. The focus to date has been on biodiversity and other environmental information for policy development, decision support, research and public education.

• General Manager of the Australian Government’s Office of Spatial Data Management
• Program Manager, Biodiversity Conservation Information System, an initiative of IUCN—the World Conservation Union
• contractor to OECD to draft the Memorandum of Understanding for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• contractor to the European Environment Agency on the European Environment Information and Observation NETwork (EIONET)
• contractor to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on ECOLEX initiative to provide global access to information on environmental law, a joint project of UNEP and IUCN
• contractor to the US Dept of Interior to draft Recommendations for the Organization and Coordination of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)
• contractor to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to build a prototype of the Clearing-house Mechanism. Member of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Clearing-house Mechanism to the CBD Secretariat
• team leader with the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) and Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)

Mangrove Project: collating biodiversity and related environmental information on Australia’s mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems